Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Using quotations from Shakespeare as well as original prose, Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona" tells the story of Constance Ledbelly, a Ph.D. student writing her thesis on an obscure document she believes will prove Shakespeare had prepared different endings for two of his most famous plays.

Cast members Jennifer Freidel, Elizabeth Hoyt and Maureen Sebastian. (Photo by Peter Smith Photography)

As she conducts research, Ledbelly is given an opportunity to prove her thesis when she disappears into a wastebasket and enters a world where she comes face-to-face with Desdemona and Juliet.

Through the course of the play, Ledbelly finds and reaffirms her self-confidence and frees herself from the harmful influence of her mentor—who up until then had manipulated her and passed her work off as his own.

Tickets, $15 for the general public and $8 for students, are available at the Michigan League Ticket Office 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Tickets also can be purchased by phone at (734) 764-2538.—Kerianne Tupac, University Productions